Feb 29 - March 4

Our Mission:  “Educate students for lifelong learning and responsible living.”
Our Vision:  “Provide a learning environment that promotes and develops academic and
social growth.”

 

• Monday Feb 29 - Dr. Seuss Week.  Cat In The Hat.  Wear Your Favorite Hat.  Make sure all Intersession forms have been turned in.
• Tuesday March 1 - Fox in Socks/ Wear your crazy/silly socks. Voting Day.  NO FACULTY MEETING. PLC Meetings.  Please bring your benchmark data.  Brett/Cramer at OKCPS Spring Career Fair 3:30 - 8:00 at John Marshall High School.
• Wednesday March 2 Tornado Drill/Fire Drill  Scrambled Eggs Super (Dress like a superhero) PBIS/Leadership meeting after school in library.
• Thursday March 3 Green Eggs and Ham/Grinch Day.  Wear Green  Smart Start 8:30 a.m. in the library
• Friday March 4 - Dress like your favorite Dr. Seuss character!  Also - last day before Spring Break.

A big thank you to Ms. Benedix, Ms. Southwell, and the Reading Committee for organizing our Thunder Bus visit.  Thank you for the ELL department assisting in getting students to the bus and back to their classrooms.

Think Thru Math has a contest just for OKCPS!  Between March 1 – March 31 any OKCPS class that has an average of 4 passed lessons per student will be entered into a drawing to win a pizza party.  Two classes will be selected. 

Please encourage your students to work hard to pass 4 TTM lessons by the end of the month. That’s just 1 lesson per week! Even though they will be on Spring Break two of those weeks, please remind them they can work on it at home too. (Previous work does not count toward the contest. Only work done from March 1-31st).

Let’s make both those parties go to Coolidge students!

Monday March 7 - Intersession
Tuesday March 8 - Intersession
Wednesday March 9 - Intersession
March 14 - March 18  Spring Break

Monday March 21 school resumes

Technology:

Please remember to monitor your students when they are using technology.  I have found pencil marks on ChromeBook screens, we have had one ChromeBook with a cracked screen, labels being removed, etc.  In the computer lab students are not using the mice correctly.  

3rd - 6th Grade:  Think Thru Math:  Please assign TEST PREP for your students.  This will help prepare them for the OCCT.  

As Spring quickly approaches, we know state testing is on your mind. To help with that, Think Through Math has an Oklahoma test prep pathway for each grade level! Each test prep pathway is between 20-30 lessons and focuses on the heavily tested concepts. This is a great review for your students.

To assign test prep, click on the Classes tab and then Current Students. Select the check mark boxes to the left of the students’ names and then click the blue Assign Pathway button at the top of the page. From there, filter by your grade level and Oklahoma and click on Search. Select the test prep pathway and click Enroll. Your students will have more than one pathway, so just let them know you want them working on the test prep pathway.

Our Standards Report goes along nicely with the test prep pathways. After your students complete the test prep, please review the Standards Report to see which standards are highest and weakest for your classes. From there, you can assign some of our shorter, domain pathways to remediate weak areas or pull up a lesson on your board through the Preview An Activity button (under the Content tab) to cover it as a whole class.

Remember the goal is for each student to pass 30 lessons. By now, students need to have a minimum of 15-20 lessons passed. If they are slightly behind, the test prep pathway can help them catch up!

We encourage you to take advantage of these test prep pathways to help prepare for state testing. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Alli Yeager

Instructional Coach

Think Through Math

Cell:  405-830-3463

• PreK - 16 hours, 53 minutes
• K - 16 hours, 23 minutes
• 1st Grade - 133 hours, 39 minutes
• 2nd Grade - 123 hours, 58 minutes
• 3rd Grade - 519 hours, 35 minutes
• 4th Grade - 541 hours, 7 minutes
• 5th Grade - 212 hours, 45 minutes
• 6th Grade - 155 hours, 23 minutes

56% of Coolidge students have met their LEXIA goal in the last 4 weeks.  808 student logins have occurred in the last 30 days.

• PreK - 99% of students are meeting their goals.
• Kindergarten - 53% of students are meeting their goals.
• 1st Grade -71% of students are meeting their goals
• 2nd Grade - 30% of students are meeting their goals.
• 3rd Grade - 7% of students are meeting their goals.
• 4th Grade - 51% of students are meeting their goals.
• 5th Grade - 55% of students are meeting their goals.

Coolidge Elementary Academic Goals for 2015-2016

• All Students WILL achieve academically.
• Reading:  Increase reading proficiency by at least one grade level.
• Math:  Increase math achievement by 10% with 80% mastery of math facts on grade level.  
• Writing:  Increase writing proficiency by 15%
• Student Attendance:  Increase student attendance to 98%.
• Increase Faculty Attendance to 98%
• Decrease suspensions by 25%.

STAR:  https://hosted58.renlearn.com/217454/

Oklahoma State Blueprints:

http://ok.gov/sde/oklahoma-academic-standards

Melissa Brett | Principal

Coolidge Elementary School | Oklahoma City Public Schools

5212 S. Villa, Oklahoma City, OK 73119

(405) 587-2800